Christopher Lemayian Kimojino

BS, Chemical Engineering

The Vice President for Student Affairs' Award for Service is given to an undergraduate
Michigan Tech student who has performed volunteer services which have provided both
benefits for the people served, as well as valuable learning experiences for the student.

Recipient's Bio

Christopher has led presentations on Kenya to local elementary and middle school students,
as well as various community organizations, taught Swahili to groups of students who
were going to Kenya, worked with Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship to get a dormitory
built in Kajiado, Kenya, for students in elementary school who walk about 12 miles
every day to get to school, delivered pumpkins at Halloween to local residents, visited
with the elderly on Valentines Day, Bowled for Kids, and assisted Salvation Army with
a clothing drive and regularly volunteered with food bagging and other miscellaneous
work.

Christopher's other service activities include being a mentor to a first-year student
with the Peer Mentor Network, participating in the GM Sullivan Fellowship program,
and working with the AFG Enterprise project which included leading a group of students
on a tour of local area homes that run on alternative energies.

Through the student organization American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Christopher
took the lead in bringing National Engineers Week (NEW) to Michigan Tech, which assists
in outreach to the younger students in the community and educating them on the advances
in engineering.